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OM Backroads Ep:37 Glenn Curtiss's historic flight to Cedar Point in 1910
Ohio Mysteries - June 13, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In this episode we travel back in time to 1910 and explore a record breaking flight by pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss. He flew from Euclid Beach to Cedar Point beach, 60 miles away. Curtiss would break the world's record in the pro...
Oregon governor nearly became President; lucky for us, he didn’t
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 12, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsNew York schemers sought to have former Oregon governor and Senator Joseph Lane named President. Had they succeeded, the Civil War likely would have been the North seceding from the South, and possibly an independent Pacific Republic in the West. (Salem, Marion County; 1860s) (For text and pictur...
Horse racing, and fixing races, were wildly popular
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 11, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsTHERE’S NOT A WHOLE LOT going on these days in the Eastern Oregon community of Jordan Valley (pop. 181). But 100 years ago, this tiny, remote hamlet was home to a racetrack that may have been the fastest in the Northwest. (Jordan Valley, Malheur County; 1890s, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see h...
The Ship-Ratio Episode?? (Ep. 123)
The Shipwreck Show - June 11, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSo like... What started it all for you? Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - http...
Episode 239: The Uvalde school shooting - Part Four
Disaster Area - June 10, 2024 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIn part four of this five-part series, we watch as people realize just how flawed the police response at Robb Elementary really was. Videos: Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to ...
Life in 1880s Salem and Portland, a banker's-eye view (WPA oral-history interview with Cyrus Woodworth)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 10, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Cyrus Woodworth, a retired banker and former telegrapher living in Salem and Portland from the 1870s to the 1930s. He actually organized one of the first car races, a match between two 'merry Oldsmobile'-era horseless carriages that reached a...
Ep 274 - Stanley Meyer: Inventor or fraud?
Ohio Mysteries - June 10, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsEp 274 - Stanley Meyer: Inventor or fraud? In 1998, Stan Meyer - who had made headlines claiming he found a way to power cars using water instead of gasoline - was having dinner with Belgian investors when he drank his juice, grabbed his throat, and proclaimed he had just been poisoned. He died ...
Episode 135 - Star of the West
Beyond the Breakers - June 08, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week we have another tale from the American Civil War - it's the sidewheel steamer Star of the West, focusing on her abortive attempt to relieve Fort Sumter in early 1861 and her service on the Confederate side at the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863 Gaza eSims - eSims are the only way for many...
Man’s theft of widow’s home too much for jury
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 07, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsESPECIALLY IN THE LATE 1800s, the Oregon frontier was no stranger to acts of judicial lynching – where the local legal system was corrupted to provide cover for murder. What’s more unusual, though, was an 1852 event that amounted to judicial cattle rustling. The cattle that the Benton County co...
Boozy generosity turned tables for Prineville Nine
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 06, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWall Street financial wizard Thomas Lawson happened to be in town and betting on Prineville. With Silver Lake up 9-0 halfway through, he knew just what to do: Buy the other team a round of drinks ... or two, or three .... (Prineville, Crook County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbe...
CAGcast #796: Multiverses, F2P Curses
CAGcast - June 06, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe gang discuss the latest movie and TV shows, the launch of Multiverses, Fortnite’s chaotic latest season, Palmer Lucky’s $200 gameboy, and so much more!
OM Backroads Ep:36 Ohio's Historical Firsts!
Ohio Mysteries - June 06, 2024 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and Welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. The state of Ohio has a long list of historic firsts that have helped shape and influence not only the rest of the country, but also the entire world! Ohio got the ball rolling with firsts in pop culture, sports, politics, educati...
Timber baron made Coos Bay a shipbuilding capitol
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 05, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsAsa Mead Simpson came out West for the Gold Rush, but he soon learned there was more money in the timber that blanketed its hills than would ever be scratched out of its rapidly dwindling gold mines. (North Bend, Coos County; 1850s, 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/141...
Kiwanda dory fleet launch straight into the surf
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 04, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“No one seems to know how the present Kiwanda dory evolved,” wrote Portland Oregonian wildlife editor Don Helm in a 1968 article, “but it revolutionized the sport and made Pacific City the dory capital of the world.” (Pacific City, Tillamook County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offb...
Homework SUCKS So Bad!!! (Ep. 122)
The Shipwreck Show - June 04, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsListen... it's not that we don't want kids to learn. But... Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support...
Episode 238: The Uvalde school shooting - Part Three
Disaster Area - June 03, 2024 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIn part three of this five-part series, we see responding officers still preparing to approach classroom 111. Videos: Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something Disturbin...
Hard-rock mining in north Baker County (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. Kitty Gray)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 03, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Manly Banister's oral history interview with Mrs. Kitty Gray. Mrs. Gray was involved in management of several hard-rock mines during the go-go years of Baker County company gold mining in the first quarter of the 20th century, especially in and around Cornucopia, and offered a lot of i...
Ep 273 - The Battle of Fallen Timbers
Ohio Mysteries - June 03, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsOn Aug. 20, 1794, General "Mad" Anthony Wayne launched a new professional army formed by Pres. George Washington against a confederation of Native Americans who did not want to be forced out of Ohio. Knowing the army was planning an attack, Chief Blue Jacket chose to make his stand among a landsc...
Episode 134 - Whippoorwill ft. Nick Williams
Beyond the Breakers - June 02, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsWe're re-joined this week by Nick (@dolorousnick), who shares the story of the sternwheeler showboat Whippoorwill, struck by a tornado on Pomona Lake in June 1978. Support the Show.
How Abe Tichner hustled rubes at 1870s county fair
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 31, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe gregarious young entrepreneur usually cleared $2,500 – that’s the equivalent of $57,000 in modern currency – on each county fair. His profit margin hovered around 92 percent. How did he do it? By selling cheap cigars — wrapped in an expensive story. (Portland, Multnomah and Washington County...
John H. Mitchell, Oregon’s own Snidely Whiplash
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 30, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsJohn Hipple dumped his family, changed his name and moved West. A dozen years and a few easy-money real-estate swindles later, he was a hugely successful railroad-and-timber lawyer and a U.S. Senator. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1880s, 1890s, 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatore...
[Bonus Episode Teaser] - Maritime Disasters in Russian America, Pt I (April 2024 Able Seaperson)
Beyond the Breakers - May 30, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsMama never told you there'd be deals like this! Every month you can get even more Beyond the Breakers by joining us on Patreon at the $3 or $5 tier! $3 a month (Able Seaperson) gets you one bonus episode, $5 (2nd Mate) gets you two (or more??) per month. It sounds a little something like this....
OM Backroads Ep:35 Did you hear about the Monkey that escaped from Cedar Point? Urban Legends in Ohio
Ohio Mysteries - May 30, 2024 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 277 ratingsHello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In this episode we explore some wild urban legends in Ohio. Some maybe you've heard of, some maybe you haven't. Helltown, the Oxford Light, the Kirkland Melonheads, Abbott's Tomb in Milan and the monkey that escaped Cedar Point ar...
Shouldn’t Oregon’s official language be Chinook?
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 29, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsSure, most people speak English. But there’s an older language whose roots run far deeper in Oregon’s culture and history, and it’s one that nearly every Oregonian knows a word or two of. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1411d.314.chinook-jargon.html)
Bad climbers kept getting stuck on Haystack Rock
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 28, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIt was a notoriously difficult climb, especially on the descent; but the 'idiots climbing Haystack Rock' dynamic didn't become a serious issue until after the helicopter was invented, and climbers started demanding that they be rescued. When they were, the propwash blew all the baby birds out of ...
2 Truths and A Lie (Ep. 121)
The Shipwreck Show - May 28, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYou're never gonna believe what Garrick DIDN'T do. Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kra...
Episode 237: The Uvalde school shooting - Part Two
Disaster Area - May 27, 2024 22:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIn part two of this five-part series, we see local law enforcement in Uvalde arriving at Robb Elementary, and what happens next - and what does not. Videos: Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics Cell phone video of the parents implori...
Rural life in the Willamette Valley in the 1870s (WPA oral-history interview with Nettie Spencer)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 27, 2024 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings'When I asked Miss Spencer about her ancestors she exhibited a tree full of monkeys and said that they were the first one," writes WPA writer Walker Winslow in his oral history interview with Nettie Spencer, which he conducted in 1938 — a little over a decade after the famous 'Scopes Monkey Trial...
Mayors Lee, Schrunk set mid-century P-town tone
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 24, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe history of Portland mayors in the 20th century largely comes down to the story of the struggle of progressive reformers against various forms of corruption and vice. Put that way, it sounds like a clean morality play: good vs. evil. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. (Portland, Multn...
In 1880s Portland, at least one mayor paid to play
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 23, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWhen Dr. James Chapman was elected mayor of Portland in 1882, it was his third non-consecutive stint as P-town’s top executive. His previous two mayoralties had been relatively unremarkable. This one, his third and final stint, would be different. Things started out reasonably well, although a c...
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